Sure, Anne Bonny and Mary Read were IRL lovers, like the show portrays. But many new characters and storylines this season nod to pirates who were barely mentioned in history books.
When the writers room for the second season of Our Flag Means Death met for the first time, coproducer Zayre Ferrer looked at the Zoom screen and had a realization: They were working on a show with four nonbinary writers of color. It was a first for them—by a longshot.
writers room knew the stories they were telling were at least somewhat based in reality. “All pirate research is queer pirate research,” Ferrer says. “Even though we're focusing on the Golden Age of Piracy in the Caribbean, we've looked at all of the pirates all over the globe at different periods of time and in depth.” One of the most clear examples of this research in season two is the introduction of Zheng Yi Sao.
writer Jes Tom’s take on the TV Sao is that she is hyper-competent, “but nobody takes her seriously. And she's in this room full of idiots, and everybody thinks all of these idiots are on equal par with her … That's something I identify with,” Tom adds. Our Flag Means Death also expanded on tales of Mary “Mark” Read and Anne Bonny, two infamous pirates of the period. The real Bonny and Read were lovers and met while passing as men.
’s second season was crafted as a balance between unearthing queer history and sharing authentic queer experiences—in a pirate playground of the writers’ own making. “When you try to do a modern, current-day queer story, there’s external pressure for things to be ‘accurate’ for the sake of accuracy,” explains Tom. In a “pirate comedy-fantasy, you get to let go of all of that because they don’t live our lives.
proves a deeper truth about which stories speak to us.
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